“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“I don’t think the homesickness of a perpetual wanderer can ever be quenched.” — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.” — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
“Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself… — Craig Bellamy Copy Share Image
We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
“A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs…… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“But there’s something about Watonka, they say. Something that pulls us back, the electromagnet that holds all the metal in place. It’s… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I'm not unhappy, for the most part, although I do think there is a certain emptiness and meaningless that I feel, sort… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself… Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“His familiar husky voice sent a wave of wistfulness through me. A thousand memories spun in my head, tangling together- a rocky… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.” — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
